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WELCOME TO FORT GORDON

Home of the Signal Regiment and U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence

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Welcome

Welcome to Fort Gordon and the Central Savannah River Area! Fort Gordon is a large, multi-mission, multi-service military installation providing base services and support across a wide spectrum of training, operational and Soldier sustainment needs. The installation supports Army and Department of Defense organizations and activities performing regional and worldwide missions including communications training and operations, military intelligence, medical and dental care, force integration and mobilization. Fort Gordon is dedicated to increasing its own Army community's involvement and the local civilian community's involvement in day-to-day support operations.

Fort Gordon is a leader in every aspect of Augusta area activities. Fort Gordon is extremely proud of its successful community partnerships.

The installation is home to the U.S. Army Signal Regiment and host to a multi-service community of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and multinational forces and has become a center for joint forces activities, training and operations.

Fort Gordon is the largest employer in the C.S.R.A. With a population of more than 15,000 military, nearly 8,000 civilians,

2,500 family members and almost 74,000 other area residents served by Fort Gordon, we directly support more than 100,000 members of the region's population. Clearly, much of the installation's annual economic impact of $2.2 billion goes directly into area shops, real estate, banks and other businesses.

Fort Gordon and the Central Savannah River Area are valued neighbors, trusted community partners and recognized leaders in city management and public administration, continuously improving both communities with quality facilities and excellent services. Fort Gordon has met the challenge of change by becoming a proactive and diverse community that welcomes partnerships with its innovative approaches to installation management.

By working together, everyone benefits by making Fort Gordon and the local communities one integrated, cooperative and caring community.

Whether you come to Fort Gordon to learn, to teach, to live or to work as a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines, as a mission partner or to provide the vast support necessary to maintain a military post of this size, you will be a vital part of the installation and a valued

member of the Central Savannah River Area community.

Directions

Fort Gordon can be reached from Interstate 20, on the western edge of Augusta, Ga. The Dyess Parkway (Interstate 20, Exit 194) leads you directly to Fort Gordon's main entrance. Or take the Bobby Jones Expressway (Interstate 520, Exit 196) then drive east on Interstate 520 to Exit 4 onto Highway 278 (Gordon Highway/ Fort Gordon exit). These exits will lead you onto Fort Gordon through the Main Gate (Gate 1). Fort Gordon is approximately 140 miles east of Atlanta, 80 miles southwest of Columbia, S.C., and 122 miles northwest of Savannah, Ga. Located about eight miles southwest of Augusta, Fort Gordon is close to the Augusta metropolitan area and an easy drive to Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, the beaches along the Atlantic Ocean and the mountains.

Arriving

All personnel arriving at Fort Gordon as permanent party should report to the Soldier Service Center, Darling Hall, Building 33720, on the corner of Chamberlain Avenue and Kilbourne

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Street. When reporting, personnel should have orders, DA Form 31 (Request and Authority for Leave) and all personnel records, as well as medical and dental records. Relocation Office: 706-791-1922 or 706-791-4181. Personnel assigned to the National Security Agency/ Central Security Services Georgia should report to Building 28423 on Brainard Avenue.

Enlisted trainee/student personnel reporting weekdays after 4 p.m. and on weekends and holidays should report to the 15th Regimental Signal Brigade Staff Duty Desk, Building 25710, on Barnes Avenue, 706-791-8314. Reporting information is also available at the Military Police Station, Building 32422, on Rice Road, 706-791-4380.

Where to report at Fort Gordon If you are enlisted and are here for training

in a Signal or Ordnance MOS, report to the 15th Signal Brigade, Building 25710 on Barnes Avenue. If you need a ride from the Augusta airport, call staff duty at 706-791-8314.

If you are here for a course at the Regimental NCO Academy, report to Building 24402 on the corner of Lane Avenue and 25th Street, regardless of the time of arrival.

Officers here for Signal training courses should report to the 442d Signal Battalion in Greeley Hall, Building 29809, regardless of the time of arrival. Staff Duty 706-791-8220.

If you are Signal permanent party and arriving during duty hours, enlisted should report to Darling Hall, Room 207. Officers report to Darling Hall, Room 262. After duty hours, Soldiers in a Signal MOS with no unit specified on their orders report to the 15th Signal Brigade, Building 25710 on Barnes Avenue.

If reporting to the 35th Signal Brigade during duty hours report to Darling Hall. After hours, report to the 35th Brigade HQ , Building 25526, on Brainard Avenue. Staff Duty 706-791-9306.

7th Signal Command report to Darling Hall during duty hours; after hours, report to Building 25440 on Barnes Avenue.

513th MI Brigade report to Darling Hall during duty hours; after hours report to Building 21710 on Barnes Avenue.

706th MI GRP and 707th MI BN report to Darling Hall during duty hours; after hours call 706-831-3239.

Eisenhower Army Medical Center (all ranks) should report to Building 319. After hours, report to Staff Duty at the hospital.

U.S. Army DENTAC personnel should report to Building 38717 on 38th Street; after hours report to Staff Duty at the hospital.

U.S. Army Dental Lab personnel should report to Building 322 on East Hospital Road. After hours, report to Staff Duty at the hospital.

NIOC Georgia personnel should report to Command Admin in Building 28423 during normal working hours (7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday). After hours, contact the CDO at 706-564-0703.

480th ISR Group (31st and 3rd Intel Squadrons) should report to Building 28423 during duty hours. After hours, locate lodging and report the next duty day.

338th TRS personnel should report to Building 25703 regardless of time of arrival.

Co D Marine Support Battalion personnel should report to Building 28423. After hours, locate lodging and report next duty day.

Marine Corps Detachment personnel should report to Building 25707; after hours call the duty officer at 706-399-1888. If arriving at the Augusta Regional Airport, call the duty officer.

International students should call 706791-6020 during the duty day; call 706-791-8220 after hours.

Housing

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706-791-5116/6559/9656/9658 DSN 780-XXXX

The installation housing services include onpost family quarters, community housing referral and relocation assistance. On-post housing is operated by Balfour Beatty Communities, located on post at 155 Third Ave. in front of the Olive Terrace townhomes. To coordinate on post housing, service members can visit Balfour Beatty's Community Management Office at 155 Third Ave., go to or call 706-772-7041. Their hours of operation are

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7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (with limited staff to 6 p.m.). The Housing Services Office (HSO), in Room 129, Darling Hall, Building 33720, on Chamberlain Avenue and Kilbourne Street, manages off- post relocation and referral services and occupant complaints for the installation and is open 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Residential Communities Initiative Project (RCI) Office is co-located with the HSO Office and can be reached at 706-791-6559/4302. There is no unaccompanied personnel housing for officers and senior enlisted personnel available on the installation. Information pertaining to unaccompanied personnel housing can be obtained by calling 706-791-7067. The Housing Services Office maintains a complete up-to-date listing of available housing within local communities. Since a waiting period usually exists for on-post family housing for most grades, many personnel must seek temporary housing within the local community. The Housing Services Office offers counseling and personal attention to your specific needs, which enables you to choose wisely from various types of off-post housing. Newcomers are required to report to the Housing Services Office before seeking off-post quarters. This office also serves as a relocation point to those members who are rotating from Fort Gordon to other installations. Housing information pertinent to the gaining installation and its surrounding communities is available on file to assist families in transition. 706-791-5116/9656/9658. You can visit the new Army one stop housing assistance website at housing.army.mil.

Lodging Facilities

706-790-3676

IHG Army Hotels is pleased to see to all your lodging needs at Fort Gordon, Ga. We offer free breakfast, free high-speed Internet connection, free Wi-Fi, free evening social during the week, free on-site fitness center, free guest laundry,

free on-post shuttle service, free business center and pet-friendly rooms just to name the highlights. You can also earn priority club points and concierge services. Everyone is welcome! Call 706-790-3676 or visit our website for reservations or more information.

Transportation

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706-791-4184, DSN 780-4184 Darling Hall, Building 33720

The Transportation Office is in Darling Hall, Building 33720. Transportation will advise military personnel on weight restrictions and allowances and assist with inbound shipments of household goods and other moving details.

Installation Vehicle Access

gordon.army.mil/acs 706-791-3071, DSN 780-3071 Darling Hall, Building 33720, Suite 151 Visitor Control Center, Gate 1, Building 00075

Drivers who want to enter Fort Gordon must possess a valid DOD ID card or a valid Fort Gordon Pass. Passes will only be issued to visitors in the right lane at Gate 1, accessible from the Jimmy Dyess Parkway. To obtain a temporary pass, visitors must have a valid driver's license, proof of insurance and vehicle registration. DOD vehicle decals are no longer used for access at Fort Gordon. All vehicles are subject to random inspections. For more information, contact the Visitor Control Center.

ID Cards and DEERS Office

gordon.army.mil/mpd/deers.htm 706-791-1930, DSN 780-1930 Darling Hall, Building 33720, Suite 161

The ID Card Section/DEERS Office is in Room 161, of Darling Hall, Building 33720. Hours of operation are 7:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Friday, and 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

Firearms Registration

gordon.army.mil/newarrivals.htm 706-791-4380, DSN 780-4380 Building 32422

All personnel who possess privately owned firearms/weapons and reside on the installation must register them within 72 hours of arrival on the installation at the Military Police Station, Building 32422 on Rice Road. Fort Gordon Regulation 210-13 and Fort Gordon Form 9243 establishes the criteria for possessing, registering, carrying, concealing and transporting firearms

and/or other deadly or dangerous weapons and instruments on Fort Gordon.

Freedom Park School

706-796-8428 Building 43400

Freedom Park School is a Richmond County Board of Education School serving grades pre-K through eight. All PK-8 school students who live on-post are zoned to attend Freedom Park. Educational opportunities are available through a basic curriculum including language arts, math, science, social studies, health, physical education and fine arts. These should be in conjunction with creative ideas, positive input and active parental involvement. All educational activities should be presented in an atmosphere that is conducive to learning yet allows enough flexibility to address individual differences.

Freedom Park School's goal is to produce a learning climate in which students achieve, regardless of their socioeconomic or ethnic background. The goals of Freedom Park School are to build the self-esteem of all students, to provide programs enhanced by computer technology, to support and enforce the academic program that is given from the state and county, and to encourage a supportive and open partnership among students, teachers, parents and community.

The faculty and staff of Freedom Park School believe in dedication to academic and social excellence. Teachers have the challenge of educating the nation's most valued resources intellectually, socially, emotionally, as well as physically. Quality education and high test scores are the criteria that inspire faculty and staff to keep abreast of the ever-changing educational trends. Realizing that complacency has no place in the classroom, teachers stress self-improvement through higher education. Freedom Park School is at 345 42nd St., Building 43400, off Avenue of the States.

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History

signal.army.mil/ocos/rdiv/ HISTARCH/schist.asp Camp Gordon, named for Confederate Lt.

Gen. John Brown Gordon, was activated for infantry and armor training during World War II. During the war, its 55,000 acres served as a divisional training base for the 4th and 26th Infantry Divisions and the 10th Armored Division that fought in Europe in Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army. (The inactivated 10th Armored Division still calls Fort Gordon home.)

After World War II, more than 85,000 officers and enlisted personnel were discharged from Camp Gordon's Army Personnel Center. Other facilities included a U.S. Disciplinary Barracks and, beginning in 1943, a prisoner of war camp for German and Italian World War II captives.

Camp Gordon, almost deserted after June 1948, came to life in September 1948 with the establishment of the Signal Corps Training Center. The post's training mission grew with the addition of the Military Police School in September 1948 and the activation of the Engineer Aviation Unit Training Center in January 1949 (the latter remained at Camp Gordon for only one year).

The Korean conflict again placed Camp Gordon center stage in preparing Soldiers for combat. In addition to communications personnel at the Signal Training Center's Signal Corps Replacement Training Center and Signal Unit Training Group, MPs trained for combat assignments while the 51st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade formed three detachments before moving to Camp Stewart, Ga. In 1950, the installation became the site for Military Government Training for the Army. Also during the decade, Camp Gordon was home to the only Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory in the continental United States as well as a Rehabilitation Training Center and a U.S. Disciplinary Barracks. In 1953, the Basic Replacement Training Center and the Advanced Leader's School provided basic training and advanced leadership training (both were inactivated in 1955). The Civil Affairs School arrived in 1955 as part of the Civil Affairs and Military Government School. Camp Gordon, becoming a permanent Army installation on March 21, 1956, was redesignated Fort Gordon. The U.S. Army Training Center (Basic) was activated here in 1957.

During the Vietnam War, infantry, military police and signal Soldiers trained at Fort

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Gordon. While Signal Corps training continued to expand throughout the 1960s, other activities ceased through postwar deactivations and the Military Police School's move to Fort McClellan, Ala. In June 1962, all activities of the Signal Corps Training Center were reorganized under the U.S. Army Southeastern Signal School. Designating the installation the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon, the Army consolidated all communications training at Fort Gordon on Oct. 1, 1974. The arrival of the Army's Computer Science School was only part of the impetus for the fort's tremendous growth during the 1980s. The following decade found its Mobilization Command deploying numerous troops to Southwest Asia during Operation Desert Shield Desert Storm (1990-1991).

Fort Gordon figures prominently in the postCold War national defense. Still the "Home of the Signal Regiment," it also supports the 35th Signal Brigade, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, the National Security Agency/Central Security Service Georgia and the 7th Signal Command (Theater).

U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Gordon

The U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Gordon operates the installation on behalf of the Signal Center of Excellence and the other units and organizations that reside on Fort Gordon. The

garrison supports the post through directorates and agencies that provide a full range of city services and quality-of-life functions -- everything from facilities maintenance, recreation and family programs to training support and emergency services.

The major organizations that make up the bulk of the U.S. Army Garrison include the Directorates of Public Works; Logistics; Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation; Human Resources; Emergency Services; and Plans, Training Mobilization and Security. Additional staff offices that support the installation mission include the Public Affairs Office, the Religious Support Office, the Resource Management Office, the Equal Employment Opportunity Office, the Installation Safety Office, and the Plans, Analysis and Integration Office. Other partners who work closely with the garrison include the Civilian Personnel Advisory Center, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command and the Joint Personal Property Shipping Office.

The garrison is part of the Atlantic Region of the Installation Management Command. IMCOM operates Army installations around the world.

The mission of the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Gordon is to deliver installation services, facilities and infrastructure to best support mission readiness and provide an enhanced quality of life

for the Soldiers, families and civilians of Fort Gordon and the Gillem Enclave. The organization's vision is an installation with strong ties and a bold future, providing the highest possible standards in services, facilities and infrastructure that is fully supportive of its diverse military operational community.

Gillem Enclave

The Gillem Enclave was established on Sept. 15, 2011, when the former Fort Gillem was officially closed as a result of 2005 Base Realignment and Closure directives. The Enclave occupies about 260 acres retained after Fort Gillem closed and hosts a wide variety of military organizations from both the active and Reserve components. Among the more prominent residents of the Enclave are the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Laboratory, the Army's only forensics laboratory, and the 3rd Medical Deployment Support Command.

The U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Gordon now provides command and control and support to the Enclave, which remains the home of about 1,300 civilian employees and active Army, Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers. Although the Enclave is not classified as a full service installation or sub-installation, Fort Gordon supplies its organizations and activities with a broad range of installation-type services.

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U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Mission The U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence

and Fort Gordon, the "Home of the Signal Regiment," trains more military personnel than any other branch training center of the U.S. Army. The multifaceted mission of the U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon encompasses training, doctrine, force integration and mobilization. The Signal Center conducts specialized instruction for all Signal Regiment military and Department of the Army civilian personnel in the Army and provides doctrine and training development support of publications. Three U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command capability managers coordinate acquisition and fielding of major systems. Force integration is accomplished through the life cycle management of all major communications-electronics systems under study or in development for future use in the field Army. The mobilization mission is to maintain assigned U.S. Army Forces Command units in a state of readiness commensurate with their authorized level of organization. Fort Gordon provides year-round training for more than 54,000 reservists as well as Army and Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps students.

Technological advances have drastically changed the Signal Corps since its founder, Albert J. Myer, introduced "Wigwag," or visual signaling, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Throughout the years, the Signal Corps Regiment has been on the cutting edge of advancements in communication technology. Adapting the telephone to military usage, facilitating the standardization of the vacuum tube, developing radar and FM radio during World War II and incorporating satellite communications and computer technology are just some of the Signal Regiment's many accomplishments. Go to signal.army.mil for more information.

Home of the Signal Regiment

"Watchful for the Country" The gold eagle holds in his talons a golden baton from which descends a signal flag. The design originated in 1865 from a meeting of Signal Corps officers, led by Maj. Albert Myer, the Chief Signal Officer, in Washington, D.C. The badge was a symbol of faithful service and good fellowship for those who served together in war and was called the "Order of the Signal Corps."

The motto, "Pro Patria Vigilans," (Watchful for the Country) was adopted from the Signal School insignia and serves to portray the cohesiveness of Signal Soldiers and their affiliation with their regimental home. The gold laurel wreath depicts the myriad achievements through strength made by the Corps since its inception. The Battle Star centered on the wreath represents formal recognition for participation in combat. It adorned a signal flag and was first awarded to Signal Corps Soldiers in 1862. The Battle Star typifies the close operational relationship between the combined arms and the Signal Corps.

Beginning with the Southeastern Signal School's graduation of the first class of 10 Signal students from its power equipment maintenance course in fall 1948, the Army continued to consolidate its communications training at Fort Gordon, including the transfer of all communications courses from Fort Monmouth, N.J., in 1974. By developing, fielding and training Soldiers to install, operate and maintain, for example, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System as well as tactical satellite communications, the U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence provides highly refined information technology systems for the U.S. Army.

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